BANAWRAP | BANANA-PEELS BUBBLE WRAP
by Tafia Sabila
Tafia Sabila
Tafia Sabila is a multidisciplinary designer with backgrounds in architecture and human-centered design research. With interest in materiality, biology, and environmental sustainability, she started her personal playground platform, Tafi-Sabi Lab, a research & design studio aimed to rethink materials by using a bio-inspired & circular-centered approach. In 2021, she co-founded Growing Plastic, an eco-venture aimed to solve plastic pollution by developing BanaWrap, a bio-based bubble wrap made of banana agro-production waste in Indonesia.
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Team/Collaborators
Growing Plastic (ig: @growingplastic.id)
Tafia Sabila Khairunnisa
Adhitya Yusuf
Bianca Putri Ramadhani
Eunike Fersa
BanaWrap is a biomaterial made of discarded banana peels that offers the functions of bubble wrap plastic (flexible to use, shock-absorbing, water-repelling) but is home-compostable & earth-friendly.
The idea was born due to the skyrocketed amount of plastic pollution generated from shipping activity, where an estimate of at least 1.6 billion parcels per year is expected to be shipped due to Indonesia’s e-commerce eightfold growth in which bubble wrap contributes 96% of overall packages.
BanaWrap is made by recovering abundant banana peels leftovers from local banana food MSMEs, as banana MSMEs are the biggest fruit agroindustry in Indonesia.
Though initially intended as packaging, BanaWrap products possess unique material properties -foamy, papery, leathery- giving them possibilities to extend beyond packaging and applicable for everyday and/or interior objects.
